Hey guyz I have forum on www.link.com and i m getting goood traffic from SE mostly google... but now i m thinking about changing my to www.link.com/forum... coz i wanna have a home page... so my question ... does it gonna affect my traffic... is google gonna reduce my traffic or wat ?
google doesn't reduce traffic, but your traffic depends on your SERP placement. you will still get the same traffic for now but your users will have to browse thru the site navigation and click on the forum link to visit the forum. if you wanna do it this way then there's nothing wrong about it but once you make the change, do some link building for heavy visit from googlebot so that your new pages under forum folder gets indexed quick
Thanks for your suggestions guyss... but i m not really satisfied... as i m getting 90% of my traffic from google search... so if i have a link www.mysite.com/link1 after moving it to sub directory it would be www.mysite.com/forum/link1, which means my previous link would be dead, therefore, all my links which are google indexed would be dead.... so, how come you guyz are saying that it will not affect on my SEO ??? i think i m gonna loose everything... and came back to zero... and ofcourse on my Home page, i m gonna have a CMS page, which will only have the forums link... so help me out here guys Thanks